National Electronic Sectional Appendix (NESA) portal

[James Jefferies]

Hi,

I was wondering whether people have been able to gain access to the National Electronic Sectional Appendix (NESA) portal via http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/10563.aspx ?

During July I emailed to request access, heard nothing, asked again and was knocked back with "Access to it is restricted to members of the railway community that have a legitimate business requirement for the complex information contained within it."

Of course, that's a fair enough response, have other people managed to get access?

cheers,

James

[Peter Hicks]

Hello

I asked about 18 months ago and got the same - I think the transparency initiative might have blurred the lines somewhat.

There are snapshots of the data on the right hand side of the page which are mostly up-to-date.  I'll ask NR next time I meet with them how often these will be updated.

Peter

[James Jefferies]

Fair enough, I wasn't sure whether the portal data might be in other,
potentially more useful formats.

Thanks for the reply!

[Harry Wood]

This coming weekend we're doing an OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend in London:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend_Dec_2012
From 10a.m we'll be at the 10gen offices at Unit 2G, 5-25 Scrutton Street (EC2A 4HJ), near Old Street

Thought I'd plug this here, because it's also sponsored by placr.co.uk, and we're interested in seeing some transport hacking using OpenStreetMap, perhaps a continuation of the work started at the rail data hack day. It could be an opportunity to get other OSMers interested in that project to add in some ref tags into OSM: http://bit.ly/Sqix5N 

In attendance we've already got some transport hackers:

- myself  - from placr.co.uk

- Shaun McDonald of ITOworld

- Andy Allan. The man behind the 'Transport Map' OSM map style ( http://www.thunderforest.com/transport/ )

...among others

Hope you can join us!

Harry Wood
p.s. For other OSM events follow @OSMLondon on twitter